Daycare attendant sentenced to 17 years for choking to death girl in her care

14 July 2019, 5:41 pm

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A daycare attendant has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for choking to death an 18-month-old girl who was under her care.

The Central District Court has also given Ina Skivenko 18 more months of a suspended sentence and ordered her to pay NIS 120,000 to the parents of Yasmin Vinta, who. she smothered to death. She was convicted under a plea bargain in which she also admitted to assaulting nine other children.

Vinta’s parents, mother Dorina and father Vladimir, new immigrants to the country, were at the courthouse for the sentencing.

Dorina says “Nothing can heal the wounds.”

“17 years is not enough for me, for my husband, for my family, but I am a little bit quiet in my heart because I know she is in the prison and she will be there all her life and she will suffer,” she tells reporters at the court, speaking in English. “She is a mother and she know what it means to not see your child.”

“17 years is nothing, she should have 60 — she murdered my girl,” Yasmin’s father says.